Quarantine!: East European Jewish immigrants and the New York City epidemics of 1892

1997 ◽  
Vol 35 (04) ◽  
pp. 35-2153-35-2153
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
East European ◽  
Jewish Immigrants ◽  
European Jewish

From the Russian Pale to the Lower East Side: The Cultural Roots of Four Jewish Women’s Radicalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annelise Orleck
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
East Side ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
East European ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Labor Radicalism ◽  
European Jewish

This chapter traces the roots of East European Jewish women’s Socialism, feminism and labor radicalism in the Eastern European towns and cities where they were born during the late 19th century. It then follows Schendierman, Newman, Lemlich and Cohn as they moved to New York City and became involved in labor and women’s subsistence activism.

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